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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Databricks vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Databricks vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteblueflood.iowww.databricks.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasespark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.databricks.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperRackspaceDatabricksGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software FoundationAlex Kashirin
Initial release20132013201220142020
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregateslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrayes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesno
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BluefloodDatabricksFirebase Realtime DatabaseSpark SQLSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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